Iron Man and Avengers: Infinity War (2018) Had People Keep Showing Up
The review so long that I split it up. Here we have an overview of my feelings on spoilers, Spider-Man, and Iron Man’s portion of the film. More to come!
Read MoreRampage (2018) felt too self aware that it was a big animal fight club movie
Look, I'm gonna say it so nobody else has to: people like to watch animals fight. Man vs Man is the most common of our movie going experiences, but the wide world out there in real life pits man against beast, chicken versus chicken, dog versus dog, and tortoise versus hare. With Rampage, we see a full acknowledgement of this with The Rock versus Flying Porcupine Wolf, Warthog Alligator, and Big Ape.
Read MoreReady Player One (2018) might win best animated movie next year
Little while ago while discussing A Wrinkle in Time, I talked about adapting things. All those expectations to live up to. Of course, I left out one thing: Steven Fucking Spielberg. Dude does not give a shit about your hopes and dreams for the thing you like, he just wants to make a good movie well told. Turns out, he's pretty good at it, too.
Read MorePassengers (2016) made us mad because it made us hate Chris Pratt, right?
What do you do when a movie actively wants you to hate the main character? They cast a charming person then have him make a decidedly human yet wrong decision and then leave us to deal with it. I haven't been this conflicted since that Jude Law remake of Alfie. Damn you, Chris Pratt. You could have been a good villain.
Read MorePredators (2010) raises more questions than you would think
Why did I think this movie was directed by Robert Rodriguez? Did he have something to do with it and I'm blanking out. I seriously thought this was the missing piece of the Rodriguez oeuvre that would tie everything together for me. As it stands, it did not tie anything together.
Read MoreBook Review: Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong is the book that speculates on what kind of assholes we all will be
When you need a book that has both murder, thoughtful ideas, and a guy with a sword chopping off hands.
Read MoreBook Review: The X-Files: Cold Cases lets old voices come out in a kinda boring story
Mulder and Scully are back to solve the mystery of the missing X-Files and the old lighthouse.
Read More25. Logan (2017) Movie Review: Yep, It's Really Damn Good
Growing old never felt so... bad. Just damn bad.
Read More1. Downsizing (2017) Movie Review: Honey, What the Hell Happened to Matt Damon?
I'm back and trying to get 365 movies in 365 days for the year of 2018. Hell, I might even try to throw in a book review or two that I'm not reading for the podcasts. We shall see.
This year started with a total dud, last year's shrinking people movie Downsizing by the normally reliable Alexander Payne, the guy who brought us Election and other things. Matt Damon is in it, you could say, and the plot asks questions. Lots of questions.
The year is future and people have developed organic shrinking technology in order to battle overpopulation. Sure. Matt Main Character convinces his wife to shrink down, but she fucks off back to her family and friends instead of spending her life with this loser. What follows is the rest of the movie, a standard "white guy finding purpose through poor disenfranchised people" plot. Even the end with a random twist could not save this flick from just being dull.
Could it have hurt them to do anything with the shrinking idea? Anything at all? We have random consequences of this tech from warlords shrinking enemies, but they live on the side. Besides Hong Chau's manic performance, everyone slept through this except for me because I was waiting for something to happen.
Here Elizabeth and I talk about it at 2am in the airport over on Curious Chats.